Netanyahu: Bribery case full of holes

Benjamin Netanyahu is accused, along with two influential Israeli businessmen, of taking bribesJACK GUEZ/GETTY IMAGES

Binyamin Netanyahu accused the Israeli police of bias after they recommended that he be indicted on two charges of receiving bribes.

In a scheduled appearance at a local government conference yesterday, the prime minister called the list of recommendations published by the police “a biased, extreme document, full of holes as a Swiss cheese, which doesn’t hold water”. He promised: “The coalition is stable and we will continue working for you until the end of the term.”

Mr Netanyahu is accused, along with two influential Israeli businessmen, of taking bribes on a number of occasions, receiving expensive gifts that totalled a million shekels (£200,000) and conspiring to organise favourable coverage for himself in Israeli tabloids.